It's time for you people to stop using the name 'Tea Party' now.

[connielane]

Um, what.

The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a

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[steampen]

LOL! Is this guy for real? Unfortunately, I think he is. So does he think that 18 year-olds who are still in college or live at their parents' house should get the boot?

[connielane]

It's barely possible he's just bringing it up in an "if you think about it" way. I sure hope so, because the implications of actually enacting such nonsense into law are too monstrous to contemplate.

[laurel_potter]

I really think the Tea Party WOULD like it if people in America had to be Christians by law, Glen Beck was the King, and Sarah Palin was Queen.

[psychic_serpent]

Wanna bet a Tea Partyer saying this kind of thing anywhere in NYC wouldn't survive as long as it would take for him to reach the nearest subway stop?

[dome36]

So, according to this principle, the poor people are not american citizens.

As someone who studies and works close to poor people I found this to be insulting.

J.

[smallerdemon]

This was my read as well. "If you're poor, well, that means you obviously aren't working hard enough and therefore you're not contributing to the welfare of everything as much as everyone else." Yeah, this is a straight up "I am in favor of Plutocracy." statement. What absolutely floors me is how many poor, uneducated white people claim that this is THEIR party.

Moreover, there are about a thousand ways to read this statement as "Well, you know, black people aren't really citizens anyway."